Back in August, we wrote that the forthcoming ESPN book, Those Guys Have All The Fun, will make many ESPN employees crap their pants. Well, here comes the onslaught: The book's publisher has lifted the embargo on releasing details from the book. You'll certainly hear more about the "rowdiest frathouse in sports TV" in the next few days, but this is what we have so far:

There's a creeping paranoia in Bristol thanks to the upcoming 2011 release of Jim…
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"A lot of drugs ... quite a bit of screwing" | John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president of everything, said yesterday: "I can tell you categorically, we do not have a frat-boy culture." Which doesn't quite match up with the words of ESPN's former general counsel: "The company would have Christmas parties up at some horrible place in Bristol. A couple of them were drunken orgies…. It became like a big frat party. There were a lot of drugs being done in the bathroom." And prostitution in an ESPN-owned apartment, too. READ »

GQ called dibs on the first exclusive excerpt of the gigantic Miller-Shales ESPN oral history,…
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Those guys have all the fur | An excerpt excised from the book tells us of a disgusting pastime, "rug racing," from Bristol's glory days. More hookers abound, naturally. Some of the inveterate rug racers still work for the Worldwide Leader, though, like so many others at ESPN, they'll get some weird looks in the hallways should their names leak out. READ »